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The Book Pile

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.8598 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Our YouTube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1QXNiZn4c0btMe0K0piUeQ Would you kill an entire civilization of aliens to save your family? Or just for fun? That is the question posed by this sci-fi classic, Ender’s Game, about a group of little boys killing bugs, tale as old as time. (If child soldiers are this effective, it makes you really curious how good BABY soldiers are!) Plus, Dave says ethics questions have no good answer, and Kellen comes up with (almost) the coolest ...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone.

0:09.0

A child trains with other children to become the saviors of Earth by fighting in zero

0:13.9

gravity and then playing video games.

0:16.8

No, this isn't the story of the birthday party I always wanted.

0:20.1

It's Enders game by Orson Scott Card.

0:24.5

And this is the book pile.

0:27.4

I'm Kellanerskin.

0:28.8

I'm a comic, a father, and if my six-year-old was ever recruited by a space agency to fight an alien war, I would probably do something to try and stop it.

0:41.7

And I'm David Vance.

0:43.3

As a teenager, I tried to get Orson Scott card to sign my copy of Chamber of Secrets,

0:47.8

and he took it very badly.

0:49.3

So now my life goal is to trick him into doing it.

0:52.4

If you can help me, please leave a comment on the

0:54.4

YouTube video. I forgot about that. That is amazing. So you stood in line for an hour or more

1:04.0

with a Harry Potter book. I wasn't in line very long. I got to the bookshop late so all the enders game copies were

1:12.6

gone. And it was just books of his I'd never heard of. And Chamber of Secrets was right there. And I was

1:18.2

like, would you sign Chamber of Secrets for me? He was not cool about it.

1:26.2

All right. As always, please, feel free to leave us an amazing review that I will only take well.

1:37.2

I have a friend who told me that he listens to this podcast on his commute so he doesn't

1:42.1

fall asleep.

1:42.7

He said, this is the only thing that keeps him awake.

1:44.9

But he said, I haven't left a review because I don't want Kellan to tease me.

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